Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4, and Thunderbird < 45.4 rely on unintended expiration dates for Preloaded Public Key Pinning, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof add-on updates by leveraging possession of an X.509 server certificate for addons.mozilla.org signed by an arbitrary built-in Certification Authority.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2016-09-22T22:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.947Z
Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-5284
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2016-09-22T22:59:18.973
Modified: 2018-10-30T16:27:02.717
Link: CVE-2016-5284
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